I've been running Home Assistant with a mix of devices for a while now, and the Matter/Thread/Zigbee question keeps coming up. Here's how I think about it, and what I'd buy today.
DuckDuckGo installs jumped 30% this week as people get sick of AI overviews burying real answers, and a broken espresso machine finally pushed me to switch too.
A week after Cloudflare took a chunk of the internet down with it, some late thoughts on why the funniest detail was Downdetector going down too.
A Cloudflare outage knocked out half my usual tabs this morning, from X to ChatGPT to Spotify, and even Downdetector went down trying to report it.
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.1 this week with knobs for warmth and personality, which reads less like a new feature and more like a quiet admission about GPT-5's tone problem.
Bitcoin slid under $100k this week after touching $126k in October, right as AI-bubble jitters were spreading through Nvidia and Palantir. A few notes on watching it happen quietly.
Amazon cut roughly 14,000 corporate jobs and called it "AI-driven efficiency" - a look at what that phrase is actually doing, plus a friend's story from inside it.
The 2025 Physics Nobel went to three guys for 1980s experiments on quantum tunneling, and it quietly explains why Google and IBM's quantum chips work the way they do.
Amazon's October Prime Big Deal Days started today, and the discount math is a lot fuzzier than the banners suggest. Also: my doorbell cam has a personal vendetta against one specific squirrel.
OpenAI's Sora 2 launched invite-only last week, and the real story isn't the AI video, it's the invite code black market that sprang up around it within 48 hours.
Nvidia's pledge to pour up to $100 billion into OpenAI keeps getting reported like a done deal instead of a ceiling on future payments, and the whole structure keeps reminding me of Lucent's vendor-financing days.
A Friday proclamation and a Sunday deadline sent tech companies scrambling to fly H-1B employees back into the US, and the chaos of that weekend says more than the $100,000 fee does.
